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Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products — The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
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| Reuters: |
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest AI model, set to be released as soon as next week, was trained on Nvidia's (NVDA.O) …
More: Malay Mail, The Decoder, and Firstpost
| Pia Singh / CNBC: |
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization — International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
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| Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: |
Software stocks like AppLovin and CrowdStrike extended their weeks-long selloff; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in Citrini Research's post — The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple says it plans to move some Mac Mini production to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years — The company will move some production of the desktop computer to Foxconn facility in Texas — Apple will move some production …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying 100M+ chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026, amid US-China tensions — The iPhone maker wants more supply based in U.S., which remains years behind Asia — PHOENIX—On a desolate stretch of land dotted … | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
A court-appointed administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and hasten Terraform's fall — The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwon's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used nonpublic information from Terraform insiders to trade| Wall Street Journal: |
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ — Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its market value; PYPL closed up 5.76% — PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Uber agrees to acquire SpotHero for an undisclosed sum, to offer parking reservation for events and at venues and airports; SpotHero was last valued at $290M — Uber said it's acquiring SpotHero, a company that provides a parking reservation app for crowded downtowns, sporting events and concerts.| Reuters: |
Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement — Meta (META.O) executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps …
More: The Hans India and The Sun Malaysia
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla sues California's DMV to reverse a ruling that found Tesla violated the law by falsely promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems — Tesla is suing California's Department of Motor Vehicles to reverse a ruling that found the automaker violated the law by falsely promoting its cars' self-driving capabilities.
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Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and r/electricvehicles
| Axios: |
A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused — But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.
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Forums: r/accelerate, r/Fauxmoi, r/law, and r/politics
| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training — Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein …
More: SingularityHub and Fast Company
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